GovSpend

JANUARY 22, 2025

Written By: Nate Haskins, CEO Last week, GovSpend teammates from around the world convened at our headquarters in Boca Raton, FL for our annual GovSpend Gathers event. As importantly, in an age of remote work, the 2-day event is also a chance to collaborate and socialize. For this reason, I look forward to Gathers every year.

Quality 59

Quality Data Utilities Integration 59

Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 2, 2024

John Barnett, a former quality inspector manager for Boeing, was found dead on March 9 in South Carolina. Barnett had internally raised claims concerning quality and safety in Boeing’s manufacturing process. The events surrounding Barnett’s death emphasize the tremendous challenges whistleblowers face in pursuing justice.

Quality 126

Quality Accountability Manufacturing Corruption 126

Whistleblower Network News

MAY 24, 2024

The passing of Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor fired in retaliation from Spirit AeroSystems after raising safety concerns about the 737 Max jet, on Tuesday, April 30, marks another tragic event in the ongoing Boeing saga. Whistleblower allegations and the passing of another whistleblower continue to swirl around Boeing.

Quality Management 110

Quality Management Quality Transportation Transportation 110

FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Department of Labor is spelling out how artificial intelligence can boost job quality without harming the rights of workers, releasing a roadmap this week that aims to empower workforces in underserved communities as use of the emerging technology proliferates.

Impact Assessment 123

Impact Assessment Transparency Quality Ethics 123

Whistleblower Network News

AUGUST 22, 2024

The National Whistleblower Day event is available to rewatch on C-SPAN , but National Whistleblower Center is also rolling out videos of keynote speeches on its YouTube channel. July 30 was National Whistleblower Day and whistleblowers, advocates and government officials gathered on Capitol Hill to celebrate.

Manufacturing 111

Manufacturing Quality Networking Government 111

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A lack of available water quality data makes it difficult to provide decision support in water-related sectors such as food production, energy security, health, economic development, and climate change resilience. The complexities of water data Water quality data is a complex data type.

Collaboration 105

Collaboration Quality Data Capacity 105

Whistleblower Network News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In particular, the government’s allegations center around LifeWatch’s ACT-3L device which it marketed as being capable of performing three different types of heart monitoring services: Holter, event monitoring, and telemetry. Of these, telemetry offers the highest rate of reimbursement from federal healthcare programs.

Quality 111

Quality Government Government Networking 111

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This crucial work helps CDPH improve the efficiency of monitoring activities and the early detection of public health events through the collection of complete and timely lab result information on a statewide basis. This allows for 24/7/365 reporting and receipt of notifiable conditions.

Data 132

Data Quality Electronics Innovation 132

Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Institutional Quality Matters Another important finding of our research is that the effect of public debt on growth depends on institutional quality. In our research we calculated how the marginal impact of debt on growth changes when the quality of the institutions changes. The results are presented in Figure 2 below.

Thresholds 105

Thresholds Quality Influencing Finance 105

GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Intelligence Community is in the midst of a major effort to become a data-centric, interoperable team of organizations. This push is shaped by new technologies and new approaches to information sharing, but leaning into the tools needed to unlock the benefits of data requires trust and assurance.

Quality 52

Quality Data 52

WashngtonExec

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

20, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person Nov. The finalists for WashingtonExec’s 2024 Pinnacle Awards were announced Sept. Next is Alex Lopez, vice president of business development at ECS, and finalist in the Business Development Executive of the Year, Public Company, category.

Quality 40

Quality 40

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Were pleased to announce the launch of the Fair Work First in Procurement eLearning , designed to help organisations across Scotland embrace Fair Work First a Scottish Government policy aimed at promoting high-quality, fair work and workforce diversity.

E-procurement 48

E-procurement Sustainability Procurement Public Procurement 48

GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

That is, how do issues like data quality, data maturity, compliance monitoring and so on actually contribute to the well-being of a community or improve service to constituents? I thought about that while listening to a recent GovLoop virtual event on data virtualization.

Data 105

Data Education Quality Budget 105

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

More AI analysis-ready datasets on the Registry of Open Data The Multi-robot, Multi-Sensor, Multi-Environment Event Dataset (M3ED ) is the first multi-sensor event camera dataset focused on high-speed dynamic motions in robotics applications.

Data 80

Data Quality Utilities Demand 80

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As one of only two Beneficiary and Family Centered Care-Quality Improvement Organizations (BFCC-QIO) in the US, the company helps more than 140 million Medicare beneficiaries access and protect their Medicare rights to improve quality of care. And the benefits don’t stop there.

Quality 72

Quality Efficiency Data Innovation 72

FedScoop

APRIL 17, 2024

For a federal agency charged with administering health insurance programs, upholding quality standards at facilities and enforcing a seemingly countless number of arcane rules , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is especially reliant on institutional knowledge.

Insurance 107

Insurance Management Finance Utilities 107

FedInsider

AUGUST 30, 2024

For instance, using data gathered on water quality can be used for planning and designing environmental interventions to keep pollutants out of groundwater. Many agencies may implement data-driven decisions to improve citizen services, cutting down on response times and improving the quality of those services.

Leadership 98

Leadership Data Participation Engineering 98

GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. Open data resources that include community reporting of otherwise unreported events could be the key to reducing such tragic numbers.

Data 104

Data Evaluation Education Quality 104

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | Training Certificate Agencies today are faced with the challenge of modernizing legacy IT solutions to streamline workflows and increase the speed and quality of their services. Click the Transcript tab at the top of the text box at any time to view event transcript.

IT 139

IT Participation E-procurement Procurement Strategies 139

AWS Public Sector

JULY 30, 2024

Streamlined code reviews maintain software quality, mitigate security risks, and enhance operational efficiency. Additionally, as teams expand to meet customer demands and maintain high software quality standards, the volume of pull requests escalates, further complicating the development process.

Efficiency 75

Efficiency Quality Engineering Integration 75

FedScoop

JUNE 5, 2024

Speaking Tuesday at a Scoop News Group-produced GDIT event in Washington, Nur and other federal cyber officials spoke of the proliferation of AI-fueled cyberattacks and how much more critical coordination and information-sharing has become as use of the technology among amateur hackers has surged. “If

Public Private Partnership 143

Public Private Partnership Collaboration Engineering Data 143

ivalua

AUGUST 26, 2015

This can significantly impact the amount of time it takes to get to the point where the information is truly actionable — especially since you must make sure that data quality, consistency, and timeliness issues are resolved BEFORE you start taking action on the information now at your disposal. SO DON’T TRY TO BOIL THE OCEAN.

Supplier 69

Supplier Capacity Automotive Manufacturing 69

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Containers enhance and modernize public sector applications with improved application quality, portability, security, scalability, and fault isolation. Event-driven architecture has gained significant traction in the public sector. For more information and resources on using Step Functions, refer to Serverlessland.com.

Total Cost of Ownership 126

Total Cost of Ownership Efficiency Data TCO 126

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In October 2023, the team responsible for IT, security, and platform engineering—Thorn’s Toolsmiths team—ran a two-day hackathon event to build out a generative AI solution to reduce team toil in answering repetitive technical questions on internal Slack and accelerate time to solution for their colleagues.

Engineering 126

Engineering Efficiency Integration Integrity 126

Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

The purpose of this updated guidance is to support implementation of FWF, the Scottish Government’s policy for driving high quality fair work and workforce diversity across the labour market in Scotland by providing more detailed practical guidance. This replaces the previous Best Practice Guidance and Toolkit published in 2018.

Procurement 76

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Sustainability 76

ivalua

AUGUST 10, 2015

Quite a few of our customers are located in the Detroit area where we recently hosted a networking event featuring Nexteer Automotive. Unfortunately, after this point of agreement, the conversations proceeded down many different paths including: data quality issues (timeliness and accuracy). information storage and sharing issues.

Automotive 63

Automotive Supplier Manufacturing Quality 63

FedScoop

JUNE 28, 2024

Leveraging artificial intelligence for efficiency to create more time for face-to-face diplomacy was a common message throughout Friday’s State AI event, which featured Blinken in a discussion with Chief AI Officer Matthew Graviss and a panel talk with four agency officials. It’s an ability to make us more effective.”

Inventory 118

Inventory Media Integration Integrity 118

AWS Public Sector

APRIL 22, 2024

Employers play a crucial role in this process, engaging learners and educators through skills maps, capstone projects, internships, apprenticeships, and exclusive hiring events for participating educational institutions.

Education 127

Education Collaboration Demand Networking 127

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

These strategies are integral to both the extraction and summarization processes, ensuring the solution consistently delivers high-quality outputs tailored to the task at hand. This Lambda function processes the event, retrieves the user’s application Id, and sends two messages to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Steps 9 to 11 : a.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Data Import Utilities 52

Extract Systems

MAY 14, 2024

It is an in-person event that is free of charge, but also offers attendees the ability to participate virtually. In just a few short years the event has grown considerably. Summerfest Tech will be held June 24-27, 2024. A complete schedule can be found at Summerfest Tech 2024 - Summerfest Tech (summerfest-tech.com).

Education 52

Education Quality Networking Participation 52

FedInsider

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Click the Transcript tab at the top of the text box at any time to view event transcript. Learning Objectives We’ll Discuss: Outline the steps to educate and empower the federal workforce on using AI safely—and the importance of keeping a “human in the loop.” Close transcript to return to live CART.

IT 97

IT Ethics Participation Networking 97

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This shift in ownership and governance is underpinned by the principle of data as a product (DaaP), where data is treated as a valuable, high-quality asset, just like any physical product an organization offers. This includes defining product requirements, managing product lifecycles, and ensuring product quality and consistency.

Data 75

Data Management Quality Supply Chain 75

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Click the Transcript tab at the top of the text box at any time to view event transcript. Francis is highly sought-after as a speaker and moderator of high-profile events in the federal community. His guest list on radio, TV, event stages, and podcast platforms has included virtually every important name in the federal government.

Accountability 142

Accountability Consulting Leadership Collaboration 142

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Response times to damages from extreme weather events, wildlife, or other external factors tend to be reactive in nature, leading to extended outages and significant expenses. Manufacturing use cases applying AWS CVAR technology target predictive quality by pinpointing anomalies and deviations from ideal parameters during each operation.

Retail 72

Retail Supply Chain Manufacturing Utilities 72

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 25, 2024

nuScenes large-scale dataset for autonomous driving from Motional, Inc. nuScenes large-scale dataset for autonomous driving from Motional, Inc.

Data 81

Data Quality Transportation Transportation 81

Select GCR

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This streamlined procurement method can significantly reduce the time and resources required to secure government contracts, allowing 8(a) firms to focus on delivering high-quality services. Being 8(a) certified opens doors, but active promotion and marketing efforts can amplify visibility within the federal sector.

Strategic Planning 105

Strategic Planning Participation Government Contracts Sustainability 105

GovLoop

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But the foundation of AI is data — high-quality, accessible and secure. Agencies also can incorporate AI and ML models to identify precursors of negative events based on how prior bad events played out. Think of a pyramid, Steel said. The top 10% or 20% is AI. Everything below is data and data management.

Data 59

Data Management Integration Integrity 59